Gośniowski Mikołaj, 32, was kidnapped by the Banderites, who went missing.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – October 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

Organized attacks by Ukrainian bands, similar to those in Volhynia, on Polish villages and estates began on Christmas itself and the first one took place in the Brodzki county. The village of Bołdury was attacked, where 81 Poles were murdered and 30 farms were the victims of fire.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „Eastern Section of the Information and Press Department of the Delegation of the Government of the Republic of Poland to the country”, Central Archives of Modern Records, in: DR, ref. No. 202/III/42 — web page: old.archives.gov.ua [accessible: 2021.04.11]

See January 2, 1944.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

At the end of January, they murdered another 3 Poles.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

In the morning we left for Bołtur. Almost all buildings after the so–called „of the Polish side” were completely or partially burned. I remember that when I entered one of the partially burnt houses, I saw a one‑year‑old child lying there on a dresser. It had spread out, nails nailed hands and feet. It was dead. There were many corpses where I passed. I counted about 40 of them. I have seen the corpses of women and children killed at close range with sharp tools or stakes. They were mostly located in houses, yards and in orchards. The bodies of the men were further away from the houses. Most of them were shot. Apparently they were trying to escape or defend themselves.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Keller Czesław, recollections; in: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 581

During the night raid, the UPA murdered, according to H. Komański and Sz. Siekierki 103 Poles, including 83 on the spot and 20 after their abduction, while according to Grzegorz Hryciak, over 140 people, including over 100 on the spot and 40 after the abduction. Polish farms were completely robbed and burned, often with the bodies of the dead. „On January 2 this year. there was an accident of a mass attack by a Ukrainian gang on the village of Bołdury in our district. The village was attacked on January 2 this year. at. 5 p.m. The hamlets, consisting of purely Polish houses, were set on fire after being poured with gasoline, and the escaping Poles were fired with rifles and machine guns. In the part of the village where Poles and The Ukrainians lived, mixed up, farms were not burned, but all Poles found were murdered. Young children were also murdered. Polish people, who miraculously saved themselves testified that the local Ukrainian population cooperated with Ukr. non–residents who committed the murders. The locals of Ukr. they moved quite freely among the bandits as they saved their property from fire. The local Ukrainians also helped the gang in finding Polish neighbors. According to the hastily collected data from the survivors, it was established that 33 people were murdered in Bołdury. We will present the name list of the murdered after collecting more detailed data. All the remaining Polish people from Bołdur took refuge in Brody. Some are almost uncoated, chilled and hungry. They live in the premises of the Committee. Poles from other villages also flee en masse to Brody”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „1944, January 3 - Letter from PolKO in Złoczów to the RGO Delegate in Lviv regarding Ukrainian attacks on people in the area of Brody”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/2, p. 75—76

On January 3 this year. A Ukrainian gang of 400–500 people attacked the Polish population in Bołdury near Brody. Some 30 Polish farms were burnt to the sidelines. In addition, 81 people were murdered according to the oral testimony of a witness from a neighboring village. The rest of the Polish population fled to Brody and there the local Polish Delegation took care of them. KO The attack was made by the local Ukrainian population with the help of the local Ukrainian villages from Lasowa, Bielawiec, Piaski, and even with the help of The Ukrainians from Volhynia from the villages of Chotyń and Mytnica Wołyńska. There was no Polish clergy at the funeral, as no submarines were delivered to him.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „1944, January 12 - Letter from the RGO Lwów Delegate to the RGO in Krakow regarding attacks by Ukrainian bands on the Polish population”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/2, p. 169

As most of the Polish families lived in Bołdury and there were more Poles, the assault on January 2, 1944 was organized. Sunday evening, the Bandera followers surrounded the whole village outside so that no one could escape from the village. All Polish Farms were immediately surrounded with armed flags. The village of Bołdury was very large and extensive, it consisted of hamlets: 1 / The center of the village was called Froj. 2 / Inlet, 3 / under the Mountain, 4 / Zrąb 5 / Kątek, 6 / Zapotok (my hamlet). The village of Bołdury had about 180 numbers in total, and the population was about 1,000 (a thousand) people, most of them Poles. I lived with my parents, Zapotok, our house was the first one on the edge of the hamlet. Next to Zapotok there are forests and a large area of meadows called the Black Forest. During the attack that had begun, several companies of armed bandits stood on the alert in these meadows of the Black Forest and trained there. Teams of murderers who murdered Poles immediately entered Zapotok and the entire village. Each murder group consisted of 8–10 people and a guide from our village to show Polish farms and who was Polish  […] At that time, I climbed through the dense woven fence to the apiary and hid at the hive next to the fence, about 20 meters from the entrance to the apartment. After these shots in the apartment, I heard a noise and this murderous group was leaving the apartment, they went one by one to the next neighbors. Zapotok had 12 numbers, our house stood on the edge of the first one from the Black Forest, So this murderous group of Banderites, about 8–10 people from our house, was walking house by house in our hamlet Zapotok and whoever they got, they murdered everyone. My father Józef Tymczyszyn was the first killed, the second Antoni Tymczyszyn was brutally murdered at the entrance to the house, and his wife Karolina Tymczyszyn was burned alive. All this was seen by their 13‑year‑old son, Stanisław, because he hid behind the open door from the kitchen to the room. Subsequently, the murdered Franciszek Sztaba and his wife Anastasia, and the old woman's mother, Franciszek not killed, was thrown in the backyard, in the basement, where she died. Then the elderly Paweł Tymczyszyn, who was ill with flu, was lying in bed, was slaughtered with a knife and his wife was killed. At the end of the Zapotok Village, Wojciech Skrzypicki with his wife Anna Skrzypicka and Makar Pilipec were murdered. 10 people were murdered behind the Potok, and about 50 people were murdered in the entire village of Bołdurach that night  […] At last this murderous group, when it reached the end of our hamlet Zapotok, gave a signal three times a loud whistle was whistled, after this whistle from the meadows of the Black Forest, armed groups of Bandera followers marched one by one to the village, then all these single guards and formed with men and with women standing in the woods and on the roads. Everyone entered the farms and took everything from the houses on the carts with which they came, as well as in every Polish farm there was a pair of horses and a cart, so all carts with horses were taken, everything from the houses was loaded, and in the pigsties where the pigs were, they were killed and taken to carts. This murder group also returned to all corners of the home. They looked, they shot if someone hid there, they threw grenades into the cellars. Loudly, giving orders through one with the name of Tymko, to whom they repeatedly asked questions, Tymko, what are we to do next? And the voice of „fell in the village of horses going away and” pałty. At that moment there was a very loud movement, hum, rattle of departing carts, further shooting. Suddenly, from our house, on the edge, there was fire on all sides. Everything is on fire right away, the buildings were covered with flammable straw. At that moment, a flash of fire from our homeland from the Black Forest was the signal „to burn the entire village of” and immediately the whole village burst into flames. The whole village is on fire, it is night around midnight, with this glow from the fire, you can see everything happening. All the carts left loaded with the prey, and the men and women, making loud noises, rejoiced at the murder in Lachy. After all the carts had left, all the band of armed Bandera followers dissolved the line from one another by a dozen or so meters and marched into the countryside  […] Dad was burnt, it was impossible to know at once where. After a few days, I managed to go there and see the remains of my father's burnt. I found a small pile of this white ash in this house burn, there were small particles of unburned bones in it. As well as the murdered people in our hamlet and in the entire village, some of these people's bodies were burned like my Father, but some of these people's bodies were not completely burned, but somehow some of these bodies lay away from these incineration sites, stretched? Some were buried by someone at our Polish Chapel (Our Lady of the Rosary), and the remaining remains of burnt bodies and ashes were blown away by the wind  […] After the attack on Bołdury on 2/01/1944, in a dozen or so days, sometime at the end of January 1944. The Banderites made a second attack on these houses, which were located near the buildings of the Ukrainians. For this reason, they were not burned in the first attack, Poles used to travel to these houses and they took what they could. It was the Banderites who made another attack and burned the rest of the Polish buildings so that the Poles would not have anything to go to there and in the second attack they caught 3 people and murdered them  […] Later, when the Russian–German front advanced to the Vistula River, the „Czerwony Brody” newspaper in Brody described extensively these attacks and murders by UPA bands that had started in these areas from Bołdur. Bołdura was described very much under the title „Czarna Noc na Bołdury”. The Banderites made a second attack on these houses, which were located near the buildings of the Ukrainians. For this reason, they were not burned in the first attack, Poles used to travel to these houses and they took what they could. It was the Banderites who made another attack and burned the rest of the Polish buildings so that the Poles would not have anything to go there and in the second attack they caught 3 people and murdered them  […] Later, when the Russian–German front advanced to the Vistula River, the „Czerwony Brody” newspaper in Brody described extensively these attacks and murders by UPA bands that had started in these areas from Bołdur. Bołdura was described very much under the title „Czarna Noc na Bołdury”. The Banderites made a second attack on these houses, which were located near the buildings of the Ukrainians. For this reason, they were not burned in the first attack, Poles used to commute to these houses and take what they could. It was the Banderites who made another attack and burned the rest of the Polish buildings so that the Poles would not have anything to go to there and in the second attack they caught 3 people and murdered them  […] Later, when the Russian–German front advanced to the Vistula River, the „Czerwony Brody” newspaper in Brody described extensively these attacks and murders by UPA bands that had started in these areas from Bołdur. Bołdura was described very much under the title „Czarna Noc na Bołdury”. It was the Banderites who made another attack and burned the rest of the Polish buildings so that the Poles would not have anything to go to there and in the second attack they caught 3 people and murdered them  […] Later, when the Russian–German front advanced to the Vistula River, the „Czerwony Brody” newspaper in Brody described extensively these attacks and murders by UPA bands started in these areas from Bołdur. Bołdura was described very much under the title „Czarna Noc na Bołdury”. It was the Banderites who made another attack and burned the rest of the Polish buildings so that the Poles would not have anything to go there and in the second attack they caught 3 people and murdered them  […] Later, when the Russian–German front advanced to the Vistula River, the „Czerwony Brody” newspaper in Brody described extensively these attacks and murders by UPA bands that had started in these areas from Bołdur. Bołdura was described very much under the title „Czarna Noc na Bołdury”..

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Tymczyszyn Kazimierz, „Oxen”, June 1997; in: portal: stankiewicze.com — web page: www.stankiewicze.com [accessible: 2010.01.01]